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I was adopted into a white, middle-class family and never felt like I belonged. It impacted how I show up at work.
Christelle Pellecuer was born in Madagascar and adopted by a French family when she was 10. She sha…
Lauren Crosby Medlicott
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Some techies are leaving cushy Silicon Valley jobs to launch startups at home in India
Many leave cushy Big Tech salaries because they no longer want to watch the booming entrepreneurshi…
Shubhangi Goel,Charissa Cheong
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A millennial who switched from working on oil rigs to wind turbines says he's been promoted faster in renewable energy
Shaun Mitchell advanced from a wind technician to a supervisor within a few years after leaving the…
Catherine Boudreau
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A day in the life of a millennial freelancer who says the UK's corporate drinking culture pushed her to work for herself and prioritize work-life balance
Annor-Owiredu doesn't drink alcohol. She said that hurt her ability to make connections and grow in…
Alexandra York
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These are some of the highest-paying jobs for digital nomads
Data scientists working remotely earn $132,000 on average. Business analysts and project managers c…
Tim Paradis
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After 23 years in corporate America, I took a career-change course to figure out what's next. Here are 9 tips that actually helped.
After decades of corporate work, I was ready for a career shift. Instead of going at it alone, I to…
Trisha Daab
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As a recent college grad, I've built my career from my childhood bed. I feel like I'm missing out on the professional world.
A college graduate is a remote freelancer, so she developed her business from her childhood bed. Sh…
Eibhlis Gale-Coleman
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I quit my job as a delivery driver to be a Henry VIII impersonator. This job is my whole life, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Henry VIII impersonator David Smith says he could never go back to working a 'normal' job after qui…
Alexandra Bacon
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I rent out homes during Wimbledon. We charge up to $18,400 a week and have hosted stars like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and the Williams sisters.
Joanna Doniger, the owner of Tennis London, has rented accommodations to Roger Federer, Rafael Nada…
Claire Turrell
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I loved being a virtual assistant so much that I started my own franchise for others. Here's how I did it.
Rebecca Newenham became a virtual assistant after craving the flexibility of working for herself fr…
Claire Turrell
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I manage Wimbledon's tennis balls. It's harder than you'd think to get 58,000 balls onto the courts of tennis' biggest stars.
Andy Chevalier, 41, has worked on Wimbledon's ball-distribution team since 2018, but this is his fi…
Emma Magnus
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I became a virtual assistant as a college student. These are my 4 tips for getting started.
Christina Jane became a virtual assistant as an undergraduate after working part time for Amazon. S…
Christina Jane
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I quit a stressful marketing job that was giving me insomnia and took a warehouse job. I realized other people's opinions don't matter.
Dainis Gzibovskis was chief marketing officer for nine years without ever taking a vacation. He qui…
Krista Krumina
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I'm the 'mother' to 60 baby kangaroos. Here's what my day is like running a kangaroo sanctuary in the Australian outback.
When Chris Barns started rescuing orphaned baby kangaroos in 2005, he would nurse them back to heal…
Alex Outhwaite
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My hawks keep pigeons out of Wimbledon matches. This is how my family business stops a problem plaguing the Grand Slam.
Rufus the hawk has become a staple of the Grand Slam. His owner Joanna Doniger explains how her fam…
Claire Turrell
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I'm a pro storm chaser. I've been in a building as it was ripped apart, but I always plan an escape route.
Aaron Rigsby became fascinated by storms after a tornado hit his Ohio hometown. Now he shoots extre…
Hayden Vernon
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Our business made $500,000 in revenue in a year, but my wife and I were miserable. Here's why ditching all our clients was worth the income hit.
Kimanzi Constable and his wife decided to cut back on work with clients, cutting revenue first then…
Kimanzi Constable
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Wells Fargo interviewed me just to meet its diversity criteria. I felt less than human when I found out.
Don Banks had two interviews with Wells Fargo that, he was later told, were only conducted to boost…
Urooba Jamal
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I quit my job as a Netflix engineer making $450,000 a year. The money wasn't worth the boredom.
Michael Lin started at Netflix as a lead engineer. After almost two years of trying to internally t…
Michael Lin
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I was warned not to become a weather presenter because of the sexism I'd face. Here's how I've tried to change the job to take people's focus off looks.
Sara Thornton has presented the weather for 20 years. Before she started, a female boss urged her t…